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Mambo Italiano (2003)
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Reviews Counted:23
Fresh:8
Rotten:15
Average Rating:5/10
Consensus: A broad, shrill comedy that plays like a sitcom.
Theatrical Release:Sep 26, 2003 Limited
Box Office: $6,239,558
Synopsis: Maria and Gino (GINETTE RENO and PAUL SORVINO), emigrated from Italy to Montreal in the 50’s and married after their arrival in “the new world”, a world they still haven’t quite gotten used to.... [More]
Starring: Luke Kirby, Paul Sorvino, Ginette Reno, Claudia Ferri
Director: Emile Gaudreault
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Reviews for Mambo Italiano
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02/04/04
Top CriticThere are laughs in the movie, and a lot of good feeling, but it seems more interested in its Italian stereotypes than its gay insights, and it must be said there is absolutely no feeling that Angelo and Nino are really lovers.
10/17/03
Top CriticIt's like watching a spaghetti-sauce commercial stretched out to feature-film length.
10/16/03
Top CriticLacks that outrageous effrontery that might have socked it to its intended audience.
10/03/03
Top CriticMambo Italiano is likely to provoke the same urges in the movie house that poor Nino experiences after a dinner at the noisy Barberini compound -- an overwhelming desire to flee.
10/03/03
Top CriticMambo Italiano is no sophisticated dance, but it moves about with an open heart. And hey, it's at least as funny as that Greek thing.
10/03/03
Top CriticIt may make you smile, but not enough to forget how much of this you've seen before.
10/03/03
Top CriticThe movie seems more interested in splashing stereotypes all over the screen than in uncovering any kind of truth, comic or otherwise.
10/03/03
Top CriticOver-acted, over-directed but dully directed.
10/02/03
Top CriticThe characters are blatantly stereotypical, but Galluccio is able to get away with it because he's poking fun at the people he loves.
10/02/03
Top CriticUnfortunately, although we're meant to root for Angelo, he often comes off as whiny and arrogant, and his attempts at screenwriting are so bad it's impossible to take his dreams of being an artist seriously.
09/25/03
Top CriticMambo Italiano has its share of very funny moments, but they are trapped in a production whose drama is unsubtle, obvious, and at times downright insipid.
09/24/03
Top CriticThe material lacks both credibility and emotional resonance.
09/22/03
Top CriticLike Greek Wedding, Mambo has enough funny moments to save it.
09/20/03
Top CriticIt's quite possible that [Mambo] may have closed the territory for raucous comedies about gay Italians coming of age in North America. For those of us whose ears keep ringing from the din of such movies, it's an errant wish.
09/20/03
Top CriticParts of Emile Gaudreault's broadly appealing movie are so, well, broad that they make Greek Wedding look like a model of restraint by comparison.
09/20/03
Top CriticIf the best comedies make you laugh and the worst make you angry, this is the middling and well-intentioned brand that makes you frustrated -- keenly looking for reasons to laugh but, more often than not, failing to find any.
09/20/03
Top CriticThere's nothing subtle about the writing -- which relies heavily on narration -- or the acting, but interesting casting goes a long way.
09/20/03
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